The Wallpaper magazine has named the Polish-based MooMoo Architects “one of the 30 most promising studios in the world”. This is the second time in history a Polish studio is honored with this title. We agree with Wallpaper editors and that is why we want to show you some of the amazing work they have done in contemporary architecture and modern home design. Frankly minimalist, their projects charm with their ingenious simplicity and sophisticated aesthetics.

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MooMoo Architects – fine design from Poland

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When architects design a home for themselves, it’s always spectacular. Take a look at what architects Alastair Townsend and Kayoko Ohtsuki of BAKOKO Design & Development have done with this small 400 sq. ft. apartment on the outskirts of Tokyo. Guided by the idea of a clean, bright, modern home that serves as a place to work and a place to rest, Townsend and Ohtsuki created this modern-minimal flat with an optimum use of space. What makes the Matsudo mansion really unique are the small luxurious details – things such …

Beauty in simplicity – these are the words that come in mind when looking at the simple and lean design of architect West Chin and his team. Minimalist, uncluttered and light filled, their modern adobes look like they have everything in its right place. Rooms are spacious and functional, yet cozy, with certain lightness and modest decorative touches that please the senses. Highly restrained, their home interiors are a clear 2-word statement: style and discipline.

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West Chin’s modern home design

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Ownby are famous for their traditional yet modern design. The characteristic spiced-up sophistication shows up in this project too – a redesigned luxury house in Estancia, near Pinnacle Peak. The vast 5500 sq. ft. home offers everything the residents may ever need, and even more – master bedroom, master bathroom, dining room, living room, cozy family room, combined dining-living room, 2 home offices for both owners, wet bar and pool. Each one of the furniture pieces are carefully chosen to perfectly match the rest of the home.  This makes the …

When Marc Porat bought the craftsman home built by the 20’s artist and architect Pedro de Lemos in 1936, he completely upgraded the home to PassiveHaus Net Zero energy standards, to demonstrate just what is possible, even with energy-inefficient housing stock.

Marc  is the co-founder of the only US company already building windows to PassivHaus standards of insulation. His company, Serious Materials began by innovating much more energy efficient and eco-friendly sheet rock, and has expanded to include “serious window insulation” …

ModCell is a British company that has come up with a very unique product that mixes pre-industrial  straw-bale building with a decidedly post-modern sensibility – by creating a building technique using prefabbed panels incorporating sustainable straw-bales.

But because straw bale construction is so unfamiliar to many people, researchers at the University of Bath arranged for a demonstration straw house to be outfitted with sensors to show how the technique is safe and effective: you can contact Balehaus@Bath for details.
Because straw can be grown …

Here’s one of the more stylish and brilliant shipping container homes I’ve seen. Not only is it fashionably frugal – since shipping containers sell for a song, but this one is as cheerful as a bright red metal lunchbox.
The brilliant part? This 40 foot shipping container, which would normally be a very cramped 8 foot wide; travels as a crunched in unit, but…

…once it is in place you would just slide out the compartments to make a spacious and gracious shipping container home.
Each of the slide-out elements is outfitted as …

1. Wow! What an easy way to let kids get a lot of exercise in a very tiny space. Simply attach a slide to the side of the stairs!

2. A bed that can’t be outgrown: this former baby crib simply becomes a sofa-cum-lions-den as the baby outgrows it!

3. A chair designed by Architect Michelle Kauffman – designer of the gorgeous Glide House prefabs, with a twist. This chair is actually made entirely  of Kauffman-designed building blocks. Just the thing to bring out the creativity in your budding architect!
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MyFab has an innovative idea that solves a real problem. One of the scariest things for anyone starting out in product design businesses is not knowing how many to make of any  new product design. It’s always a leap of faith that your brilliant idea will be appreciated and actually sell. Especially if you make very high-end designer furniture; each piece can be quite an investment in time and money.
A possible solution is in MyFab’s new site that is launching in California next month and will provide an online …

Here is prefab minimalism for the masses.
The prefab company Habode builds streamlined abodes that suit the on-the-go lifestyle we really live. The detailing is no nonsense, elegant, modern, simple, solidly constructed.

There’s nothing you don’t need, and everything you do need.

This solidly constructed prefab takes only a few hours to put up at the site, from its arrival onsite in a metal cocoon

on the back of a container truck

to its full unfolding as a complete home hours later. That’s because the prefab is fully constructed in the factory,

more like the …